waste of ebay fees. I saw an old PC waiting to be picked up by the garbage this morning on my paper round, nabbed it after school. Turns out it has 2x 64mb DDR ram, an 8MB VGA card, and an intel celeron chip(think it is form 2000). I think my piece of paper has more processing power, but the chip will make a nice ornimant.
The problem isnt that much the pc, its my parents, alot of mates offered me bargains on cheap parts and all they do is whine and say "one day" you'll get a better one . Lmao, i think ill stick with this one for some more years then ;<
no erasing the boot loader completely will make it so it won't startup and you'de basically need to install windows again. the maxmem tag is just a property that's added when the system starts more or less. and mine probably isn't EXACTLY what should go tehre for you in your isntance. just the /maxmem tag at the end. and that won't make it faster ti'll make it WAY slower. I thought that was your goal slow as hell and then new system.
Build a site where people can submit suggestions on how to destroy your PC. Winning entry gets a video of how it gets destroyed. Allow people donate to your new PC. Make a lot of money.
If you want to get rid of it .. do what I did to my old one.. (man I wish I took Pictures) Take it to a friend's house's backyard Call a couple of your friends over for a Barbecue, When everything is ready and you guys need to be around a fire at the night... give each friend a sledge hammer And kill that sucka till he cant move (your computer) then just light it up and sit around the fire ... eating marshmallows It was fun as hell... killing your computer with Slegehammer and then Burning it for a Camp Night type of thing ...ooh and the ashes...we just burried them somewhere in a park I believe.. lol it was funny as hell also before destroying your computer.. make it overheat O/C it asmuch as you can.. make everything on your computer go wild.. beyond their limit... Btw I had a dell Dimension 8200 with same specs as you..except mine was 1.8ghZ -Zain